Gai daan jai are Hong Kong egg waffles — a batter of eggs, flour, sugar, and evaporated milk cooked between two cast-iron plates studded with small hemispherical cells, producing a grid of soft, puffy bubbles that are crisp on the outside and tender within. The texture sits somewhere between a waffle and a sponge cake […]

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Calas are fried rice fritters — soft, slightly sweet, spiced with nutmeg, and eaten hot in the morning alongside café au lait. The batter is built from cooked rice, flour, eggs, sugar, and a leavening agent, mixed until the rice breaks down just enough to bind but still leaves texture in the finished fritter. They […]

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